Future Forward Summit on Sustainable Higher Education

17th Oct – 19th Oct 2018 09:00 – 17:00

The Future Forward Summit aims to bring together people from all over the world who are connected to higher education and who are a part of making a positive change for sustainability. We believe that in a world in transition, everyone is a part of the change.

Expect a conference where you will explore the inspiration driving the game-changing pioneers and learn how others dealt with our common challenges. And finally, you’ll bring it all back to your own ideas and projects: futureproof your project design with the help of like-minded colleagues and the input of experts from unexpected backgrounds.

For who?

For driven educators and education innovators: Education is your tool of choice for creating a better world.
For driven researchers: You know that new types of knowledge and methods are needed to fuel the transition to sustainability.
For driven students: You are always looking for new insights that can sharpen your persuasiveness as a change-maker.

Topics
The workshop proposal should provide fresh perspectives and share innovative practices or renewal processes that support a sustainable future. Proposals should be aligned with one of the following topics:

Together we can change the weather
Collaboration within higher education and with external stakeholders is necessary to achieve steps forward in sustainable challenges. Within this topic we focus on collaboration, co-creation, inter- and transdisciplinarity, community-building, service learning, living labs…

Interventions in educational settings
How can we recondition education to become education for sustainable development? We focus on transforming learning environments and building educators’ capacities.

Wicked problems tackled
How can higher education and research play a role in dealing with wicked problems? How did you embrace complexity and uncertainty to strengthen your education and research?

State of the art
Creating space for experiments and innovation is important in higher education. Within this topic we focus on innovative projects that are already unexpectedly, breaking through barriers or hacking problems in the traditional (educational) system. We let people speak who managed to find creative ways of rethinking the box.

The force of policy
Within this topic we take a look at the force of policy in higher education and external policy makers. How can policy create a pathway for positive change? How can the barriers impeding this change be overcome?

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